1954 05 15 083 TNY CARDS 000244396

LETTER FROM WASHINGTON: Review of U. S. Foreign policy involving Indo-China; causes that led to the diplomatic defeat at Geneva and ensuing consequences. Last Sun in an assessment of our present difficulties, the Wash Post concluded that we are right where we have been for so many years, faced with the alternative of going to war with Communist China or throwing our weight behind the best kind of settlement we are able to get-which cannot possibly be as favorable to us as as a settlement made last month or the month before might have been. There are some well-informed people here - notably Adm. Radford, who seem convinced that going to war is the answer. They argue that we will have to do it sooner or later anyway, that in the long run China will be a greater threat to American interests than e en the USSR and that the difficulties of winning a war against China have been greatly exaggerated, that it would be quite within our present capacities.